Numbering in Hierarchical Books

Adobe FrameMaker 9 has introduced hierarchy in books. Two new logical entities Folders and Groups have been added in books to support hierarchy.

Figure 1: Book containing Chapter, Section and Sub-section

Levels in Hierarchy

1. Chapter Level

All the files and components that are directly present at the root level are considered to be at Chapter Level.

2. Section Level

All the files and components that are directly under the Folder present at root level are considered to be at Section Level.

3. Sub-section Level

Files and components that are present directly under Folder at Section Level are considered to be at Sub-section Level.

Note: Group’s should always be ignored while determining the level of hierarchy.

Selecting the components at different levels

To select all the components at Chapter, Section and Sub-section level one can use corresponding menu items Edit -> Select -> Chapter/Section/Sub-section Components. In Fig 1 all the components at Chapter level are shown selected.

Books in FrameMaker9 support additional formats like book, XML and ditamap i.e. they can now be added within the books and numbering can be set on these files as well.

Numbering in Child Book components.

Figure 3: Book containing Child Book

Child Book implies book present within another book.In this figure ParentBook.book is a book that contains another book ChildBook.book within it. All the fm files and Child Book are present at the Chapter Level. The components present in the ChildBook.book are considered to be present at next level relative to the ParentBook.book.